The evening world., 1887-12-02

an institution. The Manhattan boys will en-
terrain their gentle visitors with q musical
entertainment, but the New Yorks will give
them something they can't see every day in
the way Of a gymnastic performance. The
doors of the big clubhouse will be wide
open all day on Saturday, and the
bright-eyed guests will have q fine
chance to take in all its wonders. The
first thing that will excite their interest
on entering is the splendid decorating of the
place. This was not done till after the place
when it was taken mp the clever artists made
up for lost time. On the first floor, too, is q
collection of the championship medals men,
bers of the club won this year in a neat glass
billiard and pool rooms and o profuse display
Of athletic pictures and statuary. The exhi-
bition will take place in the gymnasium,
which occupies the fourth and fifth floors.
The handball excitement is striking every
where. A match is o proposed, best eleven
in twenty-one games, between lin Dunno, the
Brooklyn ex-pugilist, and Lawlor, the cham
pion of Ireland. Barney McQuade wants to
play the winner.
That Carney benefit the other night. as well
as being the best managed affair of the kind
seen in years, was without doubt the quiet
est. One ~well-known sporting reporter who
seldom gets le1t, ulun I near OF IL tlll tne luSJ
minute, and then only got to. it by CHANGING
across Arthur Chambers in the street.
Charlie Norton, the famous ex-champion of
light weights. now Of Newark, and Jim Daw-
son. the we'll known Philadelphia promoter
of foot handicaps, came to this city, but got
How the Jersey City Athletic Club pro-
poses to make money enough out of unan-
nounced boxing exhibitions to build q cinder
i natb newt apagpn IL a nuvvla. The SattOS the
other night were not ~patronized all because
nobody knew anything about them.
G. Y. Gilbert, the well-known New York
Athletic Club runner, has Just had q pair of
2O-inch ice skates made for him. These are
about the longest on record. He has sent
them over to Jersey for II. M. Banks, jr., to
experiment with on the first sheet of frozen
water.
So much fault was found with the highly
| allowed medals the Twelfth Regiment dis
pensed last winter that the secretary has sent
cards to all the athletes That the present lot
are solid gold A w~ell-known athlete yester:
for it than look for proof.
Jem Carney, went to Boston last night,
where he will take a farewell benefit. He
will visit Arthur Chambers and Jimmy
Mitchell in Philadelphia before he finally
sails for England, in about three weeks, from
this port.
Mr.. Pomeroy, the New York Athletic Club
representative, has gone to Washington to
confer with Mr.. Perry. ef the Columbia Ath-
letic Club, of Washington, and Mr.. Wallace,
of the Schulkill Navy Athletic Club, in re-
gard to the constitution and bylaws of the
new amateur athletic organization. Another
meeting will be held in a month, and the
matters will be finally adjusted.
Work is going steadily forward on Sedge-
mere, the new acquisition of the New York
Athletic Club in the Sound.
At o meeting of the Games Committee of
the New York Athletic Club this afternoon
q number of important subjects regarding
| the winters entertainments will come up.